Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wail of police sirens seldom subsides at the Academy Homes. Alpha Security guards constantly patrol the buildings, and the walls of the MBTA's orange line--which slices through the project--are almost completely obscured by graffiti. Poor, extended and usually fatherless families occupy the two massive structures which rise out of the haze and debris of Roxbury. Most of the adults are alcoholics or drug addicts. The children--who comprise more than 60 per cent of the residents--run in gangs, calling themselves the Warlocks, the Crazy Homicides or the Wild Bunch. The environment is not conducive...
...Fresh Pond is a favorite place for my family--one of my nicest memories was the morning I discovered a kingfisher lived there... The new taxes that just came out are not among the nicest memories. Neither is the MBTA." --Hubert Jessup...
...company closed its excavation pit adjacent to the Cambridge Common September 12, and has not set a date for resumption of work, spokesmen for the MBTA said yesterday...
James McCarthy, an MBTA spokesman, said the contract for excavation of the tunnel requires Morrison-Knudsen "to take measures to prevent potential mudslides or cave-ins." McCarthy added that the construction firm has contended that ground conditions proved different from what they were led to expect from an MBTA engineering report...
...MBTA officials declined to comment on the cost of the delay...